OPTIMADE, an API for exchanging materials data
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Andersen, Casper W
Armiento, Rickard
Blokhin, Evgeny
Conduit, Gareth J
Dwaraknath, Shyam
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Journal Article
Abstract
The Open Databases Integration for Materials Design (OPTIMADE) consortium has designed a universal application
programming interface (API) to make materials databases accessible and interoperable. We outline the first stable
release of the specification, v1.0, which is already supported by many leading databases and several software
packages. We illustrate the advantages of the OPTIMADE API through worked examples on each of the public
materials databases that support the full API specification.
Date Issued
2021-08-12
Date Acceptance
2021-06-23
Citation
Scientific Data, 2021, 8
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2052-4463
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Nature Research
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Scientific Data
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8
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